The St Helen’s Balconiers 2022 Newsletter should have dropped or will soon drop through the letter boxes of members.
In summary there are the usual mixture of articles including:
Chairman’s Report;
2021 Players Awards Evening;
Reflections on the Championship Win – 1997 by Steve James;
Williams Works Wonders against Australians – Dr Richard Bentley;
Alan Rees – A Tribute – Dr Andrew Hignell.
The above event has been rescheduled to the 4th November 2022 to facilitate Michael’s return to Australia.
Venue: The Towers Hotel, Jersey Marine 4th November 2022 12:00 for 12:30 pm.
The invitation and associated response card are below, please note the response date of by 29th October 2022.
No doubt the event will be popular, so an early response is recommended.
To take place at The Towers Hotel, Jersey Marine, Swansea. During the evening there will be a tribute to Eifion Jones who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this Summer.
Please refer to the attached invitation letter for further details.
The St Helen’s Balconiers are assisting Neath CC in offering hospitality for the Glamorgan v Lancashire fixture on Wednesday 17th August 2022.
With Glamorgan being the winners of last year’s competition, and Lancashire not having played in Neath since 1961 we are pleased to see them at this years West Wales Cricket Festival at Neath Cricket Club.
Please see the letter below for full information and the booking form for your use.
Your support would be appreciated, whether Corporate, Society or Club.
The Balconiers are celebrating their 50th anniversary this season and have been organising stay-away trips for 47 years. Consequently, we have gained an excellent reputation for offering the best value with regard to executive travel and accommodation and are the envy of all the other 17 counties.
If you would like to join any of the trips (see schedule below) please tick the appropriate box and return the schedule as per the instruction on the form.
All supporters of the Glamorgan team are most welcome to join these trips including those supporters that live away from South Wales who have the option to join us on a hotel-only basis.
Please download the three forms below for full details.
The two documents below detail the fixtures for the Glamorgan 1st XI and the Welsh Fire (Men and Women) teams. The documents are essentially the same just one in colour and the other in black & white.
James Harris will be the next speaker in the popular series of talks held by the CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket, with the online event taking on the evening of Thursday, 3 March.
“An Evening with James Harris” will start at 19:00 via ZOOM with the all-rounder reflecting on the highlights of his county career so far with Glamorgan and Middlesex as well as with various England age-group teams.
In particular, James will reflect on his dramatic first summer with Glamorgan’s 1st XI and how the seventeen year-old from Pontarddulais became in 2007 the youngest-ever bowler in the entire County Championship to take ten wickets in a match, as he returned match figures of 12/118 against Gloucestershire at Bristol. James will also be talking about his work off the field with the Professional Cricketers’ Association for whom he is now Chairman.
Attendance at this virtual event will be free of charge with those wishing to attend being asked to send an email to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk by 17:00 on Wednesday, 2 March. A confirmation reply will be sent out, together with further instructions about the event on ZOOM and logon details.
We also welcome questions in advance so please send details of any questions for James to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk . A recording of the talk will also be placed afterwards on the Glamorgan website, as well as on the Museum’s new website.
AN EVENING WITH TERRY DAVIES – 27 JANUARY @19:00
Arrangements for the first Museum talk of 2022 have been finalized with Terry Davies, the former Glamorgan wicket-keeper, being the guest speaker at the online event on the evening of Thursday, 27 January.
“An Evening with Terry Davies” will start via ZOOM at 1900 with the former wicket-keeper looking back on his professional playing career, initially with the MCC groundstaff at Lord’s during the late 1970s, before joining the Glamorgan staff as Eifion Jones’ deputy behind the stumps and subsequently playing for the Welsh county alongside the likes of overseas stars Javed Miandad, Ezra Moseley and Winston Davis, plus South African-born all-rounder Rodney Ontong, and the emerging young players including Hugh Morris, Greg Thomas and Matthew Maynard.
Terry emigrated to Australia at the end of the 1986 season, and during the talk he will reflect on his time leading Bankstown CC to a pair of Sydney Grade Premiership titles alongside the Waugh twins, Steve and Mark, as well as his work as a state selector with New South Wales and Marketing Manager for South Australia. Terry subsequently became Chief Executive of the South Australian Cricket Association, before becoming the General Manager of the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne and subsequently moving to New Zealand where he is Chief Executive of Dunedin Venues.
Attendance at this virtual event will be free of charge with those wishing to attend being asked to send an email to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk by 17:00 on Wednesday, 26 January. A confirmation reply will be sent out, together with further instructions about the event on ZOOM and logon details.
We also welcome questions in advance so please send details of any questions for Terry to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk . A copy of the event will also be placed afterwards on the Glamorgan website.
If you wish to refresh your memories see: https://glamorgancricketarchives.com/terry-davies/
The final Museum talk for 2021 will feature Kiran Carlson and will look back on his success in leading Glamorgan to victory in the Royal London Cup Final against Durham at Trent Bridge.
“An Evening with the Carlson’s” will take place via ZOOM starting at 1900 on Tuesday, 14 December and will also look, with the help of Kiran’s parents, at his rise into the Glamorgan playing squad via the pathway programme via Hawthorn Primary School and Whitchurch High School.
Besides looking at his time in junior cricket, Kiran will also reflect on his dramatic first-class debut at Northampton in 2016, where he took five wickets, as well as the match later that year at Chelmsford where, aged 18 years and 118 days, Kiran became the youngest-ever centurion for Glamorgan in first-class cricket.
Given Glamorgan’s success in the Royal London Cup, this will be a very fitting way to end a year which has seen the Club secure its first silverware for seventeen years.
Attendance at the virtual meeting will be free of charge with those wishing to attend being asked to send an email to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk by 17:00 on Monday, 13 December. A confirmation reply will be sent out, together with further instructions and logon details. We also welcome questions in advance so please send details of any questions for Kiran to museum@glamorgancricket.co.uk .
A copy of the event will also be placed afterwards on the Glamorgan website.
30 NOV 2021 | CRICKET – from the Glamorgan Website
The ECB has confirmed the announcement of the women’s and men’s domestic fixtures for next summer will be released as early as possible in 2022.
The creation of a fixture list is a complex task that requires certainty around many factors including tour schedules, venues for all internationals, men’s and women’s, and other major matches.
LV= Insurance County Championship matches will be played regularly from the start of the season until the end of July. The Royal London Cup and The Hundred will follow before the Championship finishes in September.
The Charlotte Edwards Cup will be played in May and June with the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in the second half of the season.
The Vitality Blast will commence at the end of May with Finals Day to be staged at Edgbaston on 16 July.
We know how much members and supporters like to plan ahead for next summer and thank you for your patience. We will update when we have further details from the ECB on when fixtures are to be published.
